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Roy Claire Potter

Liverpool School of Art and Design

Faculty of Arts Professional and Social Studies

Email: R.C.Potter@ljmu.ac.uk

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Roy Claire Potter is a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art in the Liverpool School of Art and Design and is Programme Leader for MA Fine Art. Roy is an artist who publishes, performs and exhibits, working across experimental writing, spoken performance, sound art, sculptural installation and drawing. They are represented by A plus A gallery in Venice, and recent research-based artworks have been presented with international arts organisations including Book Works, Serpentine, Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts, Tate Britian, Tate Publishing and PRIMARY.

Collaboration with musicians and sound artists is a frequent feature of their practice, producing audio works for music festivals and radio broadcasts. Collaborators have included a wide, dynamic range of acoustic practitioners including Korean multi-instrumentalist Park Jiha, Berlin-based techno DJ Ziur, sound artist Kieron Piercy and doom folk singer-songwriter Bridget Hayden. These works have been presented by world-leading sound arts organisations including BBC Radio 3, Radiophrenia, Café OTO, Counterflows, and Supernormal.

Roy holds an MFA in Fine Art from the Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford, a PGDip in Art Writing from Goldsmiths, and BA (hons) from Leeds Metropolitan University. They have lectured and taught studio and theory at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and have examined practice-based research across the UK and Europe, including Royal College of Art, Royal Academy Schools, Goldsmiths, Newcastle University, Sandberg Institute Netherlands, Curatorial School Venice, and Beaux-Arts Nantes, among many others.

Current practice-based research is focused on how experimental art writing and language-based performance art intersects with neurodivergent methodologies of communication, particularly in spatial linguistic frameworks like situated vocal encounters, but also extended to the spatial organisation of the page and first-person narrative form. They are specifically interested in the radical, socio-political potential of an autistic poetics for new modes of communality and communication and are establishing this inquiry through practice-based investigations into radio communications technologies.

Recently, Roy was appointed to curatorial team for the 41st EVA International, Ireland’s large-scale biennial of contemporary art, to develop the 2025 Platform Commissions initiative. Together with co-selector Iarlaith Ní Fheorais they wrote a thematic framework for the commission, inviting artists to expand on definitions of access. The five projects selected for production and presentation during the 2025 biennial embrace and explore the methodologies of access needs from the perspectives of marginalised disabled/queer/migrant communities. For this work, Roy was awarded a sabbatical period to write a case study of the impact these commissions have on the biennial publics and EVA as an international biennial organisation.

Roy sits on the editorial board for JAWS, the Journal for Art and Writing published by Intellect UK, and is the former Regional Editor for Merseyside at Corridor8, a publishing platform for art writing and criticism in the North of England. Besides teaching in the Higher Education sector, Roy is a tutor of hybrid writing with Arvon and has mentored artists through programmes organised by Tate Young Producers, Spike Island, CCA Derry-Londonderry, Wysing Arts Centre, and TOMA. Their long-standing events programme for artists working with writing, Shady Dealings With Language, has produced live events funded by Arts Council England and small grant-making and mentoring schemes since 2014.

Degrees

2016, University of Oxford, UK, MFA Fine Art
2013, Goldsmiths University of London, United Kingdom, PGDip Art Writing
2008, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK, BA Contemporary Creative Practice

Academic appointments

Programme Leader MA Fine Art, Liverpool John Moores University, 2023 - present
Interim Programme Leader BA Fine Art, Fine Art, Liverpool John Moores University, 2023 - 2023
Senior Lecturer, Liverpool John Moores University, 2019 - present
Visiting Lecturer, Goldsmiths, University of London, 2019 - 2020
Visiting Lecturer, Royal College of Art, 2017 - 2020
External Examiner, Sandberg Instituut, 2017 - 2017
Visiting Lecturer, Liverpool John Moores University, 2016 - 2019

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